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Mulholland Dam
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- A fourth panel, the Board of Engineers to evaluate Mulholland Dam, was appointed in 1931 to examine the feasibility of abandoning Mulholland Dam.
- The Hollywood Reservoir, seen from Mulholland Dam. ... Mulholland scoffed at Hollywood residents’ fears that the dam could ever possibly break.
- Mulholland Dam is a gravity dam, fresh water dam and concrete dam that was built from 1923 until 1924.
- Historical Notes. The Mulholland Dam is a concrete-arched gravity dam constructed between August 1923 and December 1924.
- Mulholland Dam was the last great work of William Mulholland, the chief architect and engineer of Los Angeles' water system.
- So successful had the construction of the Mulholland Dam been that Mulholland and his team virtually copied it for their second stab at a concrete gravity dam.
- The Mulholland Dam (named after William Mulholland, who designed the Los Angeles Aqueduct) holds the Hollywood Reservoir in place up in the Hollywood Hills.
- The Mulholland Dam was principally designed by, and named after the father of the modern Los Angeles water system, William Mulholland.
- Construction of the dam began in August 1923. Mulholland Dam was originally named Weid Canyon Dam. They changed the name to Hollywood Dam.
- Almost all defended Mulholland, but Thomas M. McMullen, who tackled an independent study of the reasons for the dam's failure, believes the great man must...
